Castillo de la Atalaya

Today: Castillo de la Atalaya, Cartagena

Place: Cartagena
Kind: Fort
Built: 1766 to 1777
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

A Neoclassical fort on top of the Atalaya hill, designed in 1766 by the military engineer Pedro Martín-Paredes Cermeño and finished in 1777 on the instructions of the Count of Aranda, to prevent further landings at La Algameca and to protect the Arsenal. It has a trapezoid plan with bastions and a moat. Today it stands abandoned and decaying.

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